Publisher: No English lesson for kids
Wang Xuming, former spokesman for the Ministry of Education，called for abolishingEnglish education for elementary students and enhanced content of Chinese in thecurriculum.
Wang now works as president of Language and Culture Press and has more than 1.8 millionfollowers on Sina Weibo, where he made the same statement twice ahead of Teacher's Dayon Sept 10.
He also urged that off-school English training programs for children be banned. "Savechildren, and save Chinese," he wrote.
Wang's post generated heated discussions. A Sina Weibo user said many people don't useEnglish after graduation while the abilities of using Chinese dropped sharply.
But a parent hoped schools can strengthen English at an early age and believed this canmake the child more competitive in the future, Modern Express reported.
（Editor：ChenLidan、Yao Chun）
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